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Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale | Metagenomics and Human microbiome | Microbial transmission & social microbiome | 🧉
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My colleagues are using ChatGPT to source data and plot analyses for them. I'm literally reviewing papers written this way. Meanwhile....

submitted 59 days ago • 59 comments

A new study found that we share parts of our microbiome with people in our social networks, beyond family members. Dr. @nachristakis.bsky.social joins us to discuss the research and how scientists can identify your friends—just by looking at your poop.

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

<taps the sign> This chart is a decade old, and that gap between the United States and the rest of the developed world, which has better health outcomes by the way, has gotten larger. We should morally, ethically, and fiscally move to a single payer system. It’s also a national security issue.

submitted 85 days ago • 15 comments

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

submitted 87 days ago • 22 comments

Interesting look at gut strain-level dynamics: The human gut has low strain variation compared to other environments and has a limited capacity for strain richness. #microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Our cluster requiring 2FA per ssh/rsync/scp is slowly driving me nuts. It's a tiny tax on workflow efficiency, but one that cumulatively is annoying and costly.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Excited to share our last work on microbiome transmission and social interactions published on Nature! The more people you interact with, the more similar your microbiome is. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

📣 Big news! Our tag-team effort on common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out in Nature 📣 Co-first authoring with the brilliant Qinqin Huang🌟—proof that teamwork does make the dream work. 💪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/

submitted 99 days ago • 11 comments

Excited to share our last work on microbiome transmission and social interactions published on Nature! The more people you interact with, the more similar your microbiome is. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

🥁 New Publication Alert: Our manuscript on the ☕️ and #microbiome relationship is out in #NatureMicrobiology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/12

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

for Coffee fans #microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

The march of the mRNA vaccines goes on. Clostridiodes difficile (C diff) next... #IDSky #MicroSky #MedSky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

Align to AllTheBacteria with low RAM (1-2Gb) and quickly (seconds if just 1000s of hits, 15 mins for a gene present in all 2.4 million genomes) using @shenwei356.bsky.social Lexicmap. So you can basically BLAST AllTheBacteria locally - but need 3-4Tb disk for index www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

This article is totally insane; NPR should be ashamed. The headlines and lede give you no indication at all that RFK is a crank whose claims about vaccines are false and threaten public health. Would they write a story saying "Alex Jones wants to inform the public but he faces a lot of pushback"?

submitted 105 days ago • 149 comments

New GPU-based MMseqs2: 20x faster searches on a single L40S (approx. as fast as a RTX 4090) vs. a 128-core CPU. This work enables to set up a very cost-efficient ColabFold MSA GPU server. 🧵🧵 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💾 mmseqs.com 🗞️ developer.nvidia.com/blog/boost-a...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Brain worms for everybody!

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010

submitted 107 days ago • 105 comments

submitted 367 days ago • 0 comments

Dear International Taxonomy Committee. I am yet again proposing a series of changes to the common names of animals for the Internet Era. Your prompt response is appreciated. 1. Texas Turtle-Rat. Alternative: Tactical Assault Possum

submitted 475 days ago • 14 comments

Fantastic investigation by Rina Raphael on Viome, which sells you a problem and then sells you a solution. It's microbiome diagnostic scienceploitation + a supplement bonanza. She spoke to a dozen former employees. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... (Readable through Apple News, BTW)

submitted 486 days ago • 1 comment

Now this is REALLY scary!

submitted 486 days ago • 0 comments